Linkpost | 8.20.2013

• David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face – The partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has been breaking most of the Edward Snowden stories, is detained at Heathrow Airport for 9 hours under a U.K. antiterrorism law. Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger says that, earlier, government officials had destroyed hard drives at the Guardian offices hoping to halt reporting of the stories. “It felt like a particularly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age,” he wrote.

• Forced Exposure ~pj – In a remarkable post, the founder of the respected Groklaw legal blog says she is shutting it down because she doesn’t want operate in a surveillance environment. Pamela Jones likens it to having her apartment broken into and everything in it touched by strangers.